Example sentences for: sicilian

How can you use “sicilian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The paintings include Jan Van Eyck’s 14th-century miniatures for the Book of Hours of the Duc de Berry, Pontormo’s St. Michael, and a particularly handsome Portrait of a Man by Sicilian master Antonello da Messina.

  • At the turn of the century, the Mafia attempted to replicate its Sicilian operation throughout Western Europe and America.

  • However, in New York and Chicago--the largest bastions of organized crime--Jewish and Italian gangs (not Sicilian Mafiosi) dominated.

  • An inside NYT "Week in Review" piece explains why the Sicilian mafia thumbs its nose at the "Russian mafia": It's a matter of definition.

  • No Sicilian passeggiata is more celebrated than a promenade on the elegant pedestrian shopping street of Corso Umberto and out along the Via Roma, or through the subtropical vegetation of the terraced Public Gardens.


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